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Farming & the land, 1914

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Winter School of Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 June 1914 · page 4

In order to give intending students every opportunity of taking advantage of the Winter School for farmers at Hawkesbury College, it has been decided to extend the date…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 9 June 1914 · page 3

Schute, Bell & Co., report under date 6th June:—The strength of, the wool market will be fully gauged at Brisbane about the middle of…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 June 1914 · page 1

Messrs. Griflth and Hassel, Patent Attorneys, of 77 Castlereagh-street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with the…

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The Far West. Sheep Giving Place to Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 June 1914 · page 6

A well-known competent authority on pastoral matter, who has just returned to Brisbane from a visit of inspection of pastoral properties and grazing areas in the…

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Dearer Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 June 1914 · page 4

The wholesale quotation for butter was yesterday advanced 4/ per cwt. Chocest brands were worth 114/ per cwt., delivered in boxes. Supplies received from the North…

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Australian Pastoral Co

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 June 1914 · page 2

The Australian Pastoral Company has declared an interim dividend of 6 per cent…

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Labour Saving Appliances in the Dairy

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 10 June 1914 · page 1

Owners of large dairies have higher to experienced considerable difficulty in obtaining the services of reliable hands for their milking sheds. The…

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Farms for Sale at Giants Creek

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 June 1914 · page 3

Messrs. Higgens, Parkinson and Co. direct attention to the sale of two farms at Giant's Creek, near Denman which will take place on Saturday next, the 13th instant. Full…

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Maitland Farmers' Union

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 June 1914 · page 4

E.S. Brunker's report:—The supply of produce forward at my sale yesterday was very large, and consisted chiefly of potatoes, pumpkins, cabbage, chaff, and hay,…

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Butter Again Advances

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 June 1914 · page 4

For the second time this week butter was advanced 4/ cwt in Sydney yesterday. The wholesale quotation for choice brands is now 118/ per ewt, delivered in boxes. The…

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Bulk-handling of Wheat

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 June 1914 · page 4

Notes on Some American and Canadian Methods. In the form of "Farmer's Bulletin, No. 85," a considerable amount of…

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Improving Butter Quality Cream Grading and Testing

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 June 1914 · page 8

The N.S.W. Minister for Agriculture (Mr Ashford) has decided that, in view a the legislation it is proposed to make uniform throughout…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 June 1914 · page 4
Also in Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser

Those Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 162…

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Bulk-handling of Wheat. Notes on Some American and Canadian Methods

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 June 1914 · page 6

In the form of "Farmer's Bulletin, No. 85," a considerable amount of information on American and Canadian methods is published under the title of…

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Nut Margarine v BUTTER

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 9

The extent to which margarine is competing with butter in British markets, and the probability of the competition becoming ever keener as the cost of its production is reduced…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 2
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

These notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the…

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Bulk-handling of Wheat. Notes on Some American and Canadian Methods

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 6
Also in Singleton Argus

In the form of "Farmer's Bulletin, No. 85," a considerable amount of information on American and Canadian methods is published under the title of…

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